Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 58, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2003, 6:07 PM CDT for Monroe County, Randolph County, Saint Clair County, Illinois. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2003, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Monroe County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
755 WFUS53 KLSX 102307 TORLSX ILC133-157-163-102345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 607 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS NORTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS SOUTHERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR NEW DESIGN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PADERBORN HECKER PRAIRIE NEW ATHENS BALDWIN LENZBURG FAYETTEVILLE MARISSA TILDEN IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE TO A BASEMENT...UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER...OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3832 9026 3814 9020 3806 8961 3846 8972 $$ CVKING/RP
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Saint Clair | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clinton, Saint Clair | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 6:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Clair | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Clinton, Marion | 46 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.